When the Jewish high-holy days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur come around, you’ll find children in most non-Orthodox Jewish communities around Los Angeles swinging a rubber chicken around their head ...

The stench of death, of hot entrails, feces, and blood, pulled at the nostrils of the hundreds crowded along on a closed-off half-block of President Street in Crown Heights on Monday evening. The ...

On Monday night, Crown Heights played host to the latest installment of New York City's annual Kapparot wars, wherein animal rights protestors try to call attention to the ritual slaughter of chickens ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

The pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot can continue in New York, a New York appeals court found. The Appellate Division First Department in Manhattan on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision that ...

(JTA) — Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken around one’s head as a way of purging sin, is one of those Jewish practices that doesn’t always, ahem, dovetail with 21st-century ...